Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] about 20 minutes left in this discussion. A reminder, you can find it online at cspan. Org wj. The house gaveling back in. We take you now to the floor. He house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. The hat purpose does gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Takano madam speaker, i suspend the house rules and pass h. R. 4920. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4920, a bill to amentitle 38, United States an , to provide for exception to certain Small Business contracting equirements applicable to the department of Veterans Affairs procurement of certain goods and Services Covered under the Ability One Program, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempe pursuant to the rule, the california, mr. Takano, and the gentleman from will each bost, control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman
And announces to the house hi s approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from North Carolina seek recognition . Ms. Foxx mr. Speaker pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker pro tempore those in favor will please say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Ms. Foxx mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from North Carolina seek recognition . Ms. Foxx mr. Speaker i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Trott. Mr. Trott i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it
Understand that dr. Spencer is a hero. That he is doing exactly whats needed to actually bring the epidemic to an end. He is a hero in that he went and did the one thing that we need to do in order to stop more cases from coming not only here but everywhere else. We need to have experienced Health Workers. My understanding is that hes a fellow in International Emergency medicine, which is an extremely good training for Something Like this kind of activity. And the one thing that now we know in these three countries is that we need Health Workers. Theres tremendous work being done, especially by the u. S. And the uk, on building facilities, but its still not clear where the Health Workers are going to come from to provide the treatment, the isolation, the infection and control that we need right now. The epidemic is still growing. Its really hard to get exact numbers on where we are in the three countries, but we know its still growing. And i think any numbers that you might hear, most
Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
And later a look at how diversifying americas workforce can be achieved by education and other means. The open Enrollment Period for purchasing Health Insurance on the federal marketplace began this weekend. The alliance for Health Reform recently hosted a discussion on what enrollees can expect and the improvements after last years rollout. This is an hour and a half. Hi, my name is ed lawrence and i want to welcome you to todays program on the Health Insurance marketplaces or exchanges. Some of you may have heard that tomorrow, that is november 15th begins the second open enrollment season for plans offered through the marketplace. That period runs through february 15, far shorter period than the sixmonth open enrollment time that we had last season. We all know that market places had some major problems with aspects of their operations, im sure well hear some about that today as well as hearing about the steps being made to improve that functionality. And we also wanting to look clo